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Have read several comments here recently about the .450-.400 with some believing it is the best all round caliber. I recall P. Taylor saying so in one of his books I read. At any rate I acquired one (Jeffries .450-.400 3") a year ago and used it to take an elephant last summer. I am very interested in the history on this double but have had very little success getting any info. I talked to Paul Roberts twice and the most I could get out of him was that the Jeffries records (those that didn't burn) were in private hands (someone told me Tom Friedkin) and not open to the public. Boddington has looked at the rifle and thinks it was made in 1915-1918. The serial # is 9080 if that helps. There are many on this site that know much more than I about doubles and I would appreciate any comments or info on this rifle. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" - Emerson | ||
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Ramrod Go to Nitro Express.com. You will find an ongoing discussion of Jeffery's rifles. I know, I'm pimping another Forum but in this case it is the best one for the information Ramrod wants.  | |||
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Ramrod, Send it to me with a case of ammuntion. I'll check it out for function and historical markings. It'll take me about a year.  Gosh I'll bet that's a beautiful rifle! Have you called George Caswell at www.champlinfirearms.com. That guy is a wealth of knowledge. | |||
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Another good source for information on the date of your Jeffries is Rusty. PM him - you will find him very helpful. ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | |||
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Ramrod, Please contact me at rkmojo@aol.com Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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Thanks for the info. Will try all that was suggested. Surestrike-please hold your breath till I ship it to you. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" - Emerson | |||
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